Officials were at the Marine Corps Logitics Base to make sure folks knew how to install safety child seats
Children are 75% less likely to be injured in a crash if their child seat is properly installed
ALBANY, GA. -- It's important to know how to properly install a child safety seat so your little ones will ride in safety this summer.
Folks at the Marine Corps Logistics Base were out this week helping answer people's questions about child restraints. Children are 75% less likely to be injured in a crash when they are properly restrained. Another surprising fact: a child's safety is decreased every time he or she graduates to a new and bigger child seat. officials say seat belts were never really tailor-made for children and that a child should stay in a child restraint of some kind until they're age eight or 4'9.
“Keep a child rear-facing as long as possible, keep them in an internal harness as long as possible, read the labels, read the instructions that come with the seat, they will tell you exactly what the weight and height limits are,” says Michelle Strickland with Albany Safe Community.
Most rear-facing seats will carry a child up to 35 pounds.
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